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Richard Conlin and Seattle mayor Greg Nickels
proposed a 20-cent fee on all disposable grocery bags used in
their city in 2008. Their goal was to shrink the mile-long
train of garbage the city sends out every day to a distant
Oregon landfill.

Seattle has one of the largest stocks of
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified
buildings in the country. Conlin said the city uses its power
as both a regulator and an economic force to push the rest of
the city and region to adopting greener building styles and
methods.

When water consumption in your city is expected
to skyrocket in the coming years, what would you do? Build more
dams? Or build hundreds of smaller projects to fix all the
leaks in your pipes and install low-flow fixtures in homes and
businesses?

Like other moments in U.S. history when the
robber barons or the big banks went too far, the American
people reined them in this week, refusing to hand over billions
of dollars that would put themselves and their children and
grandchildren into debt to pay off the collapsing fortunes of
some over-sized and under-regulated banks.

Stories of Hope and Change You Didn't Hear
About in 2007 and 2008. Project Censored 2009 highlights a new
form of journalism: one that looks for the places where real
change for the better is already underway. Here are their 10
featured stories...

Whose Bailout? Main Street is the world of
local businesses and working people engaged in producing and
exchanging real goods and services—a world of real wealth.
Wall Street as it now exists is a world of pure money in which
the sole game is to use money to make money for people who have
money